LaTeXRender Perl Port
I ported LaTeXRender— software that lets you use the power of LaTeX in a blog or other web-based application— (originally PHP) to Perl; the port is available here. The port doesn’t currently support MimeTeX; if you need it, let me know, and I’ll work it in. Direct any questions to the comments of this entry, or to the email address in the archive.
Note: I just realized the file has a .gz extension; treat it instead as a .tgz file.
Possibly relevant posts:
- Installing TeTeX latex packages (2/28/2005)
- New LaTeX Illustration Pipeline (2/13/2005)
- Java recursive deletion script (2/6/2005)
Cool port. Since I’m more familliar with Perl (only slightly), maybe I can figure out a way to use the direct DVI->PNG converter with it (check out http://dvipng.sourceforge.net/dvipng.html)
Comment by didier — 4/14/2005 @ 11:37 pm
That does look like an interesting alternative to using ImageMagick. I haven’t timed the current conversion time, but from the site, it looks like dvipng is probably faster. And if you go direct from dvi to png, you don’t need to bother with running ghostscript. Only thing is, dvipng isn’t standard software… but it should be really easy to make it an option.
Thanks for the heads-up
Comment by Alex — 4/15/2005 @ 8:33 am
Googling for Latex and YaBB brought me here. I teach math at the University of Ottawa and I have a YaBB forum for my course. I was always complaining that it would be great if we could post Latex code directly. Is this all I need to make it work? Is it difficult to install?
Thank you.
Robert Hart
Comment by Robert Hart — 1/8/2007 @ 11:35 am